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    Downsized Expectations – Cooking and the Post-Pandemic Meltdown

    June 5, 2020 /

    Pandemic cooking was all the rage during the quarantine. According to my library checkouts I hopped on the bandwagon. Yet not one loaf of banana bread was baked in this home.

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  • Divorced. Now what?,  The Mother Hood

    Life After Divorce, 2555 Days Later

    May 30, 2020 /No Comments

    Seven years divorced, and I haven't dated once — not because I couldn't, but because I chose not to. Here's what life after divorce actually looks like.

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    Desperately Seeking a Clue – Challenge Life

    March 13, 2020 /No Comments

    Parenting teenage boys is a challenge. I am struggling hard and its not for lack of trying, but at this moment in time I want to give up.

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    Achievement Unlocked: Back to Work and Getting My Shit Together

    April 9, 2019 /No Comments

    I applied on a lark, did the phone interview half asleep, and somehow landed a job at my dream company. Here's what getting my shit together actually feels like.

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    Midlife Musings,  Movie Musings

    Fever Dream – Ghosts from My Past and Watching Bandersnatch

    January 17, 2019 /No Comments

    I have a weird quirk where sometimes the more popular something is, the more I resist jumping on the bandwagon. Some latent habit left over from my rebellious youth? A remnant of anti-establishment feelings that never really disappeared, perhaps?

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